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UO Senior Honored
as North America’s Top Student
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| CRA award winner Anna Cavender. |
A University of Oregon senior has been named North America’s 2004 Outstanding Female Undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering by the Computing Research Association (CRA) of Washington, D.C.
The honor recognizes Anna Cavender’s “extraordinary commitment to public service” as shown by her work on two significant projects, says Anthony Hornof, the UO assistant professor of computer and information science who nominated her for the award.
“Anna’s work in the field of human-computer interaction opens up the creative and scientific world to those who’ve been locked out due to gender inequality or physical impairments,” he says.
Cavender, originally from Ft. Collins, Colorado, was lead programmer for the Adventures of Josie True software project designed to counter social pressures that turn middleschool girls away from math and computers.
Currently, she has a lead role helping Hornof develop EyeDraw, a system to enable children with profound physical disabilities to draw using only their eyes. She and a fellow student, Rob Hoselton, worked together on the project now being tested at three sites around the U.S. by children and adults with significant motor impairment. Cavender helped to unveil the project at “CHI 2004” in Vienna, the annual international Computer Human Interface conference.
Cavender is the Erwin & Gertrude Juilfs Scholar in the Arts and Sciences. Her research is also supported by a Research Experiences for Undergraduates grant from the National Science Foundation.
The Computing Research Association’s members include more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering, as well as industry and government labs including Microsoft, Hewlett- Packard, and Accenture.
Cavender will graduate from the UO this June with a bachelor’s degree and enter the Ph.D. program in computer science at the University of Washington in fall.
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